LAWRENCE, Kan. — Nikki Moody saw an open driving lane with 27 seconds left, similar to the ones that she’d seen throughout the game, had a look at the basket, like the several others she had made throughout the game.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Kansas women’s basketball team sat in last place in the Big 12 coming into Monday’s regular season finale, but the Jayhawks became just the second team to sweep Iowa State this season with a 68-64 win.

Iowa State football coach Paul Rhoads met with the media to talk about the start of spring football, which begins on Tuesday. Rhoads talks about why guard Daniel Burton will miss the spring and why the Cyclones are starting spring football so early in this Ames Tribune video.

Iowa State guard Nikki Moody was named the Big 12 player of the week on Monday. Moody helped the Cyclones beat No. 3 Baylor and Texas Tech last week. She averaged 14.5 points, 10.0 assists and 4.0 rebounds in the two wins.

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Teetering on the edge of total collapse, the Iowa State men’s basketball team put the ball in its best player’s hands for safekeeping. A “miscommunication” and bad pass later, the Cyclones sit with a second-straight setback and a locker room full of discontent following the shocking final minutes of a 70-69 loss to Kansas State on Saturday afternoon.

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Despite the meltdown of the final minutes in its 70-69 loss to Kansas State, the Iowa State men’s basketball team still had a good chance to win the game with 4.8 seconds left on the clock.

Just before the Iowa State women’s basketball team walked out of the locker room for Saturday’s Senior Day game against No. 3 Baylor, Fallon Ellis surprised her teammates by telling them she’d be singing the national anthem.